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GitHub has partnered with Let’s Encrypt, which is a free, open and automated certificate authority (CA). The goal of this initiative is to secure the web by making it very easy to obtain a free, trusted SSL certificate. Moreover, it lets web servers run a piece of software that not only gets a valid SSL certificate, but will also configure your web server and automatically renew the certificate when it expires...

Microsoft announces the Microsoft Professional Program in AI, the latest learning track teaching artificial intelligence skills open to the public.

This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users...

AV1 is a new general-purpose video codec developed by the Alliance for Open Media. The alliance began development of this new codec using Google's VPX codecs, Cisco's Thor codec, and Mozilla's/Xiph.Org's Daala codec as starting point. AV1 leapfrogs the performance of VP9 and HEVC, making it a next-next-generation codec. The AV1 format is and will always be royalty-free with a permissive FOSS license...

Today, let’s have a look at the TOP 10 new features in MySQL 8.0 that will improve DBA’s life. To shrink the list to 10 only items wasn’t an easy task, but here is the top 10...

So you're curious in learning this new thing called Reactive Programming, particularly its variant comprising of Rx, Bacon.js, RAC, and others...

Rather than exploring features first, it is helpful to put them into context and to understand how they came to exist. An introduction to GraphQL and lessons learned from the last 60 years of API development...

Today W3C releases HTML 5.2. This is the second revision of HTML5, following last year’s HTML 5.1 Recommendation...

Firefox Quantum – version 57 – introduced number of changes to the network requests scheduler. One of them is using data of the Tracking Protection database to delay load of scripts from tracking domains when possible during the time a page is actively loading and rendering...

Windows Insider build from now on enables Service Workers by default in Microsoft Edge for the first time. This is an exciting milestone for for the web...

Safari Technology Preview release 46 includes bug fixes and feature improvements for Security UI, Privacy, CSS, Rendering, Storage Access API, Web Inspector, Web Assembly, Web Driver, JavaScript, Media, and WebRTC...

A round up of the audio/video updates in Chrome 63/64...

Sites with bad ads will see all their ads blocked...

async_hooks, improved console.debug, dependencies update (v8 and libuv), module.builtinModules will return a list of built in modules, n-api helper for addons to get the event loop, process.setUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback can now be used to customize behavior for --abort-on-uncaught-exception, embedders can now use Node::CreatePlatform to create an instance of NodePlatform, writable.writableHighWaterMark and readable.readableHighWaterMark will return the values the stream object was instantiated with...

Featuring a new update channel for Next.js, our first canary release and the Next.js 5 Roadmap...

This release marks months of hard work for the young, scrappy, and hungry CLI team, and includes some changes we’ve been hoping to do for literally years. npm@5 takes npm a pretty big step forward, significantly improving its performance in almost all common situations, fixing a bunch of old errors due to the architecture, and just generally making it more robust and fault-tolerant. It comes with changes to make life easier for people doing monorepos, for users who want consistency/security guarantees, and brings semver support to git dependencies...

Relay Modern is a new version of Relay designed from the ground up to be easier to use, more extensible and, most of all, able to improve performance on mobile devices. Relay Modern accomplishes this with static queries and ahead-of-time code generation...

React Fiber is an ongoing reimplementation of React's core algorithm. It is the culmination of over two years of research by the React team. The goal of React Fiber is to increase its suitability for areas like animation, layout, and gestures. Its headline feature is incremental rendering: the ability to split rendering work into chunks and spread it out over multiple frames. Other key features include the ability to pause, abort, or reuse work as new updates come in; the ability to assign priority to different types of updates; and new concurrency primitives...

In TypeScript 2.3, we’re experimenting with a new “soft” form of checking in .js files, which brings many of the advantages of writing TypeScript without actually writing .ts files. After working closely with the Angular team, we’re happy to announce that TypeScript 2.3 officially makes a language server plugin API available. This API allows plugins to augment the regular editing experience that TypeScript already delivers. What all of this means is that you can get an enhanced editing experience for many different workloads...

Significantly increased performance - in some cases by 30%. Better compatibility - key for PFC's, class integrations, capturing events. Fewer edge cases - goodbye to unnecessary mounts and DOM hierarchy errors. Even smaller - Preact had been 3.9kb for a while - now it's 3.3kb (and headed for 2.9kb!)...

It's been exactly one year since the last breaking change to React. Our next major release, React 16, will include some exciting improvements, including a complete rewrite of React's internals. We take stability seriously, and are committed to bringing those improvements to all of our users with minimal effort...

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native...

Free and open source software has been part of Google's technical and organizational foundation since the beginning. We've launched a new website for Google Open Source that ties together all of our initiatives with information on how we use, release, and support open source...

There are many great coding principles, but it can be hard to keep them all in your head at once. Instead, I try to remember these three attitudes...

External developers may find it particularly useful when designing gRPC APIs for use with Google Cloud Endpoints, and we strongly recommend such developers use these design principles...